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	<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jul 2008 07:13:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Shattered</title>
		<link>http://appliedphilosophy.wordpress.com/2008/07/04/shattered/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jul 2008 07:10:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>anonemiss</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Two Lines
The following graph is from St. Louis Federal Reserve Bank:
Click to view
Blue line: ‘Total Borrowings of Depository Institutions from the Federal Reserve&#8217;
Red line: ‘Non-Borrowed Reserves of Depository Institutions&#8217;
From the red line we concluded that US banks are insolvent, from the blue we concluded that the Fed (Federal Reserve) has assumed their liabilities. The result [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Meat!</title>
		<link>http://appliedphilosophy.wordpress.com/2008/07/02/meat/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 12:33:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>anonemiss</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[diet]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Hay &#38; Grass
The English say ‘make hay while the sun shines&#8217; meaning that one should take advantage of the circumstances before they change. I didn&#8217;t really understand this saying-the literal and figurative understanding that I like to have of sayings-until I saw a television program about life on an English farm circa 1620. The program [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Monetary Weapons</title>
		<link>http://appliedphilosophy.wordpress.com/2008/06/30/monetary-weapons/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jun 2008 13:33:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>anonemiss</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The downward spiral in the German bund market widened the Euro&#8217;s interest rtate advantage over the US dollar, leaving the greenback on shaky ground and vulnerable to speculative attack. Bernanke would be under heavy pressure to match a second ECB rate hike to 4.50%, to defend the value of the dollar. In essence, the ECB [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Distance on Earth&#8217;s Surface</title>
		<link>http://appliedphilosophy.wordpress.com/2008/06/27/distance-on-earths-surface/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jun 2008 13:15:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>anonemiss</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[coordinates]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I would like to present a simple way to estimate the straight-line distance between two points on the surface of Earth using only their coordinates and the calculator provided with MS Windows in scientific mode (any scientific calculator is sufficient).
I assume that Earth is a perfect sphere with constant radius, some references gives Earth a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Weekly Lesson (15)</title>
		<link>http://appliedphilosophy.wordpress.com/2008/06/25/weekly-lesson-15/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:37:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>anonemiss</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;[The Taliban] are, in fact, among the most principled and most pious rulers modern Afghanistan has ever had. They are perhaps also among the pious and principled rulers the present day world has. It was indeed their piety, their principled behavior coupled with their strong convictions as well as their iron determination that helped them [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Atlas Broken</title>
		<link>http://appliedphilosophy.wordpress.com/2008/06/21/atlas-broken/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jun 2008 17:36:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>anonemiss</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Two important stories from the USA, the first is the flooding of the Mississippi; although only two dozens died because of the flooding and no major urban area has been effected, yet, the consequence of the flooding is much more widespread. This year is a year of high agricultural prices and supply shortages, the flood [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Ptillion Dollars</title>
		<link>http://appliedphilosophy.wordpress.com/2008/06/19/a-ptillion-dollars/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jun 2008 17:21:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>anonemiss</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[A ptillion dollars is a thousand trillion dollars or ten to the power fifteen dollars or $1,000,000,000,000,000.
This number is no longer a theoretical measure but an economic reality: Total debt in the US-public and private-has been estimated at $0.1 ptillion; the value of short-term interest-rate futures traded on exchanges is $0.548 ptillion (notional).
When the coming [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Roman PI</title>
		<link>http://appliedphilosophy.wordpress.com/2008/06/17/a-roman-pi/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jun 2008 18:01:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>anonemiss</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Literature]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Gordianus]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[rome]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Steven Saylor]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Steven Saylor&#8217;s Roma Sub Rosa series, 1991-ongoing, 10 novels &#38; 2 short stories collections.
I own ten books by Steven Saylor all of them belong to his Roma Sub Rosa series featuring Gordianus the Finder: A private detective working in ancient Rome, and elsewhere in the Mediterranean, around the middle of the first century BC. Some [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Catholic Empire 950-1350</title>
		<link>http://appliedphilosophy.wordpress.com/2008/06/02/the-catholic-empire/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jun 2008 09:01:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>anonemiss</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The history of the world knows many past empires, some are still visible others quite forgotten, but only one has been to a successful degree concealed from history and a veil drawn on its existence and the role it played in the history of mankind; a role that still echoes in our present life.
Once we [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Staggering Hypocrisy of the Western Mind</title>
		<link>http://appliedphilosophy.wordpress.com/2008/05/26/the-staggering-hypocrisy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 May 2008 07:59:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>anonemiss</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The Indian Ocean tsunami of 2004, with its 225,000 or more deaths in 11 countries, shocked the world; so, in recent weeks, has the devastation wrought by a powerful cyclone (and tidal surge) that hit the Irrawaddy Delta of Myanmar. It resulted in at least 78,000 deaths (with another 56,000 reported missing) and a display [...]]]></description>
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